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Household consumption Expenditure By category
Household consumption expenditure by category for 2008
Real household consumption expenditure (year ending March 2008, 1995/96 prices)
Category |
Total household consumption expenditure |
Household consumption expenditure per household |
Household consumption expenditure per person |
Percentage of total (excluding net tourist expenditure) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Food and beverages |
13,989 |
9,195 |
3,299 |
16.7 |
Housing1 |
13,586 |
8,930 |
3,203 |
16.3 |
Transport |
12,542 |
8,244 |
2,957 |
15.0 |
Household goods and services |
10,970 |
7,211 |
2,587 |
13.1 |
Other goods and services |
9,241 |
6,074 |
2,179 |
11.1 |
Hotels and restaurants |
5,989 |
3,937 |
1,412 |
7.2 |
Clothing and footwear |
4,406 |
2,896 |
1,039 |
5.3 |
Recreation and education and health and medical combined2 |
12,860 |
8,453 |
3,032 |
15.4 |
| Sub-total3 | 83,583 |
54,940 |
19,708 |
100 |
Net tourist expenditure4 |
-1,518 |
-998 |
-358 |
|
Total3 |
82,065 |
53,943 |
19,350 |
Notes:
(1) Housing excludes house purchases and mortgage payments, but does include an estimated rent for owner-occupied dwellings.
(2) The recreation and education category and health and medical category are combined because complete data sets for the individual categories were unavailable.
(3) Due to rounding, figures may not add up to totals shown.
(4) Many of the categories include expenditure in New Zealand by non-residents but exclude expenditure overseas by New Zealand residents. However, this is adjusted for in net tourist expenditure, which is expenditure overseas by New Zealand residents less expenditure in New Zealand by non-residents.
Source: Statistics New Zealand.
This information has come from the Household Consumption Expenditure environmental report card.
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Last updated: April 2009
